How is the new 10 percent SOL grade going to work?
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Anonymous
| Discrimination against kids with IEPs. This better not stand muster if challenged. |
Anonymous
Are kids with IEPs not able to do well on SOLs? |
Anonymous
Sometimes no. It depends completely on why they have the IEP. My daughter has a learning disability that specifically impacts math. She has high reading scores and passes every other SOL with ease, but can’t crack 375 in a math SOL. It also disproportionately would affect EL kids because ALL of these tests are delivered in English. So any SOL becomes first and foremost for them a test of their English proficiency. I teach a lot of kids who know math and science content in their home language but fail to pass the SOL because the first barrier to any of that is taking a LONG standardized test written entirely in English, in which they may or may not be proficient. |
Anonymous
| The new 100 point scaled SOL should not be adaptive. Everyone should be taking the same test so that their score reflects the grade that they earned. |
Anonymous
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Its not fair to use an adaptive test as
Part of a classroom grade!!!! This is crazy. |
Anonymous
Agree. |
Anonymous
S/o quick question-Is that maybe part or big reason why ST math used because nothing in writing? |
Anonymous
| Maybe the bull wont pass? |
Anonymous
Math teacher--yes, the idea was that there are zero language barriers to entry, it is only math content. |
Anonymous
Kids with learning disabilities are proportionately impacted by testing. This new policy is discriminatory. |
Anonymous
It has passed and was signed. |
Anonymous
Does it matter? Grades don’t matter before high school anyway. |
Anonymous
| Since its an adaptive test, the only fair way for this to effect grades would be passing the SOL= 100% as 10% of the grade. |
Anonymous
| We’re still opting out, not putting my kids through this nonsense. |
Anonymous
HS tests are not adaptive. |